Prigogine calls for Stalin's repression: business and officials in the Russian Federation are frightened - Bloomberg

About it writes Bloomberg with reference to its own sources. The rise of supporters of a rigid line in the Kremlin is fearing that Russian President Vladimir Putin is hearing their calls to strengthen the confrontation abroad and mass repression in the country, the interlocutors say. Players who were previously considered marginal, including Prigogine, turn into forces that are behind Putin's desire to intensify military activities.

Some rich Russians, according to Bloomberg, are afraid of families. The open attacks of Prigogine on the highest warlords, some of whom were released, and the governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Belov, increased the concern of bureaucracy. "The state lost a monopoly on violence, new operators of this service have emerged. It is strange that Putin encourages it," - said political scientist Kateryna Shulman, who left Russia in the first weeks of the war.

Some insiders are afraid of cleaning and arbitrary arrests, as during the reign of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. One of the high -ranking officials compared the current situation with military dictatorship, but without a coup. The dominant emotion in the authorities, according to him, became fear. The anxiety of the authorities has not yet developed into the internal resistance of the Putin plans - many support its existential struggle for the future of Russia, the agency emphasizes.

Several officials who could be called liberals in the past, such as the Deputy Head of the Kremlin Administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, have become active defenders of war. "Prigogine behaves as a parallel government. He may be able to fight for power, if not in Putin," after him, "comments Andrei Kolesnikov from the Carnegie Foundation for the International Peace.

Bloomberg interlocutors describe Putin as an isolated leader surrounded by a small group of fans of a hard line and unacceptable to critical views. Recall that at the American Institute of War Study recognized Putin's dependence on the mercenaries of the Wagner Group and Chechnya Kadyrov's chairman. The security officers, according to analysts, increase the impact in the Kremlin daily and promote personal interests.

Yevgeny Prigogin has previously recognized his connection with the interference with the US President's election. The State Department promised a decisive response and imposition of sanctions. According to US intelligence, since 2014, the Russian Federation has spent at least $ 300 million on bribery of Western politicians. Prigogine accused the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoig and the Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov of failures in the war in Ukraine.